WHAT KIND OF ATTENTION IS NECESSARY FOR FEAR REDUCTION?

为了减少恐惧需要什么样的关注？

• 批准号: 2519698
• 负责人: JAN MOHLMAN
• 金额: $ 1.81万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-25 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2519698
• 关键词: Arachnida; attention; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; cognitive behavior therapy; desensitization psychotherapy; human subject; longitudinal human study; neuropsychological tests; phobias; psychological models; questionnaires; stimulus /response; visual perception

Although attention to feared stimuli is believed to play a role in exposure-based fear reduction, investigations have yielded inconsistent results. The proposed study will test several hypotheses derived from the Emotional Processing Model (Foa & Kozak, 1986) to clarify the role of attention in the process of fear reduction. Support for these hypotheses would challenge stimulus-response models, and reveal optimal conditions for changing cognitive representations of fear. Eighth spider-fearful participants will undergo a pretest assessment which will include cognitive, behavioral, and physiological measures, then complete a 40-min exposure session in one of four experimental conditions. Each participant will focus visually on either a fear- relevant (tarantula) or irrelevant (plant) stimulus, while also focusing cognitively on either of these stimuli. The exposure session will be followed by posttest and follow-up assessments. Data will be analyzed with MANOVA and polynomial regression. The proposed study will extend the existing literature on fear and attention, and will have important implications for research, theory, and practice.

尽管人们认为对恐惧刺激的注意力在 基于安全的恐惧减少，调查结果不一致 结果拟议的研究将测试几个假设来自 情绪处理模型（Foa & Kozak，1986） 注意力在减少恐惧过程中的作用。支持这些 假设将挑战刺激反应模型，并揭示 改变恐惧认知表征的最佳条件。 第八名害怕蜘蛛的参与者将接受测试前评估 包括认知、行为和生理测量， 然后在四个实验中的一个中完成40分钟的暴露期， 条件 每个参与者都要在视觉上关注一种恐惧- 相关（狼蛛）或不相关（植物）刺激，同时也关注 对这两种刺激的认知能力曝光环节将是 然后进行后测和随访评估。 将对数据进行分析 MANOVA和多项式回归。 拟定的研究将 扩展现有的关于恐惧和注意力的文献，并将 对研究、理论和实践的重要意义。